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Friday, May 10, 2013

What's NEW in Fiction? Stop by and Pick Up One of These Exciting Titles

The Accomplice by Charles Robbins

An ambitious young
politico lands a dream job only to find himself implicated in dealings
more shady than he could have ever suspected Smarting over a recent
gubernatorial campaign in which he may have cost his boss the race,
Henry Hatten is concerned about becoming a political has-been. But he
catches a break when he lands a job as communications director for
Nebraska Senator Tom Peele’s presidential campaign. As the campaign
progresses, however, Henry finds himself involved in dealings so dirty,
even a potential spot in the White House might not justify the means.

In a world in which campaigns are won in the margins, pushing players to
the very edge, how do you avoid sliding over and damning yourself?

Man in the Woods by Scott Spencer

Paul has been on his
own since he was a teenager, leading a life of freedom and independence,
beholden to no one and nothing. Fearless, resolute, and guided by his
own private moral code, he has hunted for food in Alaska, fought forest
fires, and been deputized in a manhunt for a kidnapper in South Dakota.
Once he thought his life would have no particular rhyme or reason,
touched only by transient strangers. Then he meets the beautiful,
intelligent, loving Kate Ellis and her daughter, Ruby, who offer order
and constancy. But Paul is a man of deep convictions, and the
compromises we all make to get along in the world elude him.

On
his way home after rejecting a job remodeling a luxurious Manhattan
apartment, Paul stops to gather his thoughts at a state park just off
the highway. Instead of peace, he finds a man savagely beating a dog,
and in a few fateful moments Paul is plunged into a world of violence
and onto a tumultuous journey of self-knowledge, guilt, and redemption.

Discord’s Apple by Carrie Vaughn

When Evie Walker goes
home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky
old house in Hope’s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she stands to
inherit. Hidden behind the old basement door is a secret and magical
storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are
kept safe until they are needed again. The magic of the storeroom
prevents access to any who are not intended to use the items. But just
because it has never been done does not mean it cannot be done.

And there are certainly those who will give anything to find a way in.

Evie
must guard the storeroom against ancient and malicious forces,
protecting the past and the future even as the present unravels around
them. Old heroes and notorious villains alike will rise to fight on her
side or to undermine her most desperate gambits. At stake is the fate of
the world, and the prevention of nothing less than the apocalypse.

Mind Storm by K.M. RuizStryker's Syndicate Series Book One

Two hundred and fifty
years after the world was nearly wiped out by nuclear war, what’s left
of society fights over the scraps of the Earth as the rich and powerful
plan to ascend in secret to another planet. But the deadly new breed of
humanity that the rulers have enslaved to protect their interests are
about to change everything. K.M. Ruiz’s Mind Storm is the
rip-roaring tale of Threnody Corwin, a “psion” with the ability to
channel electricity like lightning through anything she touches.

As a
solider-slave for the human government, Threnody is recruited by an
unknown enemy: the scion of Earth’s most powerful (and supposedly human)
family, the Serca Syndicate. But Lucas Serca is far from human and he
intends to make Threnody and her fellow psions meet their destiny, no
matter how many people he has to kill to do it. Mind Storm is
the first of two books chronicling the fight for survival by the psions
and other “gene-trash” humans, before they’re killed by the racist
world government, or left to die on a crumbling Earth.

A Patchwork Christmas Collection by Judith Miller

Join three of today’s
bestselling inspirational fiction authors in a collection of Christmas
stories from Victorian-era America that are full of second-chance
romances.

Jilted by her fiancé, Karla packs away her wedding quilts and
her plans for marriage. Widow Jane travels to marry a prosperous man she
barely knows in order to give her daughter a better life—then is
stranded in a winter storm. Ada, a wealthy ingénue, inadvertently causes
grave injury to a poor man she once considered quite a catch. Each must
search her heart, change her plans. . .and patch together a tender,
unexpected life filled with love.

Gil Marsh by A.C.E. Bauer

Good looking, athletic,
and smart, Gill Marsh is the most popular kid at Uruk High School, even
though he is only a junior. When Enko, a new kid from Montreal, shows
up, Gil is wary. Yet Enko is easy going and matches Gil's athletic
prowess without being a threat. Soon, the two become inseparable
friends, practicing, studying, and double-dating.

Then suddenly, to everyone's shock, Enko succombs to an aggressive cancer.

When
Enko's parents take his body and return to Canada, Gil is unable to
even say good bye. He is inconsolable. Determined to find Enko's grave,
Gil sneaks away and heads north.

Closely based on the ancient
story of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian King from 3000 BC, A. C. E. Bauer has
carefully woven the classic elements of myth to follow Gil's quest and
explore the grief and growth of a young man.

Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez

Diana's life was in a
rut - she hated her job, she was perpetually single, and she needed a
place to live. But then the perfect apartment came along. It seemed too
good to be true - because it was.

As it turns out, the apartment
was already inhabited - by monsters. Vom the Hungering was the first to
greet Diana and to warn her that his sole purpose in life was to eat
everything in his path. This poses a problem for Diana since she's in
his path...and is forbidden from ever leaving the apartment.

It
turns out though that there are older and more ancient monstrous
entities afoot - ones who want to devour the moon and destroy the world
as we know it. Can Diana, Vom, and the other horrors stop this from
happening? Maybe if they can get Vom to stop eating everything...and
everyone.